Portfolio : Some of our best Demolitions

HURON, Ohio: Seven-year-old Max Hinton has spent about two years of his life battling cancer. When it came to fulfilling his wish, Max didn't want to battle anything. He just wanted to push a button, and blow up a building.

September 21, 2008, the roof of the Miami Arena was imploded. While the exterior walls remained standing after the implosion, demolition continued until the falling of the west wall on October 21, 2008.

After S&R prepared the building, Eric J Kelly and the AED crew performed the weakening and "tripping". This video was filmed by ALLPROUSA Media Production and provides a great insight into the "TRIPPING" method of felling structures.

Demolition of Bow Valley Medical Center, Calgary (also called Calgary General Hospital), Alberta Canada. World record for "Most structures demolished at once". At one point, the blast was delayed 20 minutes while several hot-air balloons violated air-space restrictions and swept in low over the complex.

Many industry experts feel that this blast holds several records, including World’s Most Peculiar Demolition Scenario. In April 2001, a Canadian pilot flying in a dense fog crashed his single-engine Cessna straight into a 1,217-foot tall TV transmission tower… so straight, in fact, that his plane remained stuck like a dart in the top of the tower. Demolition experts were called in to recover the wreckage by felling the structure with explosives, and set a new height record in the process.